Radio Free Culture:
Playlist
from June 25, 2012

Hosted by various WFMU personalities, Radio Free Culture is a weekly program that explores digital culture, net neutrality, piracy, the broadcast spectrum, digital rights, and archives and libraries in the internet age. We'll be interviewing some of the nation's key figures at the intersection of music, multimedia, and digital technology. This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:15pm
Danne D:
Bruce Coslet and Ki-Jana Carter leading the way! Of course after they started 1-6.

So who's gonna ask 'em about Pr0n.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:16pm
Danne D:
Q: More seriously, how do they deal with any potential legality issues in terms of the pages they are archiving?

Mon. 6/25/12 6:16pm
Fredericks:
I believe the Turing test only required 60% of the conversation be appropriate/convincing.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:19pm
BW:
pron coming!

Mon. 6/25/12 6:20pm
Matt from Springfield:
@Danne: For the most part, I say: get a robots.txt file if you don't want your pages archived.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:20pm
Bas, NL:
Question: Is there any (way of) rating the value of what to put in the archive?

Mon. 6/25/12 6:25pm
Danne D:
LOL Matt - That wasn't why I was asking!

Mon. 6/25/12 6:28pm
Danne D:
http://archive.org/details/911

Mon. 6/25/12 6:28pm
the glowing one:
I have a question about the 9/11 recordings: I remember that there used to be higher quality mpegs available back then. now they seem to be gone or are at least not accessible. what happened to those files?

Mon. 6/25/12 6:29pm
BW:
hah

Mon. 6/25/12 6:29pm
Matt from Springfield:
Ah, I'd like to see that 9/11 archive. It's painful, but I'd really like to revisit that for a longer historical view--I haven't looked at the original coverage since it happened.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:29pm
Danne D:
lol

Mon. 6/25/12 6:30pm
The Interesting Parts:
Technically, when people are sitting down we are in fact under the table

As is is so easy & fast to create information, so too is it increasingly ephemeral. Archive is a great resource & effort to preserve that which is fleeting - Kudos!

Mon. 6/25/12 6:34pm
Matt from Springfield:
A lot forums it seems are blocked from Archive.org--there were public, search-engine accessible forums that you could look up, but then if it goes offline archive.org won't show them.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:36pm
Danne D:
wow:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961223013844/http://democrats.org/

http://web.archive.org/web/19961220233340/http://rnc.org/

Mon. 6/25/12 6:38pm
Danne D:
usatoday.com is a prominent site with no archive btw.

Q: Has there ever been a clear threat that could've taken the entire project down?

Mon. 6/25/12 6:50pm
Matt from Springfield:
And, Kenny G said much the same thing regarding UbuWeb, getting obscure but important art pieces, with only a few hundred vinyl LPs available, and making them available to the world.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:55pm
Matt from Springfield:
At work now, but now that I know about this series I may try to call another time. Thanks Ben!

Mon. 6/25/12 6:56pm
BW:
the last monday of every month!

Mon. 6/25/12 6:56pm
the glowing one:
nope, the industry just won't give up. they will try again and again.

Mon. 6/25/12 6:56pm
Danne D:
Great show :)

Mon. 6/25/12 6:57pm
Matt from Springfield:
And yes, SOPA and PIPA were lightning rods, they united so many technology people against it. The near unianimity was important in fighting the lobbyist-bought legislators. Occupy Congress on Jan 17, a number were attracted there in part by SOPA and PIPA (myself included).